As a busy recruiter, you are probably wondering if is it even worth your time to read “recruiting blogs”? You are intent on executing the latest sourcing hack (talking of sourcing hacks, do you know the latest way to source developers from stack overflow), reaching out to rockstars, placing candidates, and
Asking the right interview questions that give you insight into someone’s personality, ambitions, biases, and fears is a difficult task. Especially because interviews are designed as a mating dance for both sides, it is difficult to measure them accurately. Recently, the co-founder of Wingify, Paras Chopra started a really interesting tweet
Here’s a thought. Next time you have an opening, don’t publish it on a job board. I MUST BE CRAZY! Or maybe not. Hear me out why job boards don’t work? What have we done ’til now? We have posted jobs to hundreds of job boards. A lot of the new job
Sorry about the clickbaity headline but now that you are here, riddle me this. Did you know that there is StackOverflow is a truly open source platform where you can query their database in SQL format and get an output of all the developers who contribute to StackOverflow? Developers are notoriously
Boolean search on google to source candidates from stack overflow is an extremely inefficient way of searching for candidates. Google’s algorithm runs on incoming hyperlinks and thus it will automatically surface candidates that have links to their answers and where people spend more time. This is not necessarily the best way
I recently saw this tweet from Matt Charney “Who here thinks AI in recruiting is totally BS and all hype?” Awkward silence as I’m the only person who raises their hand… — Matt Charney (@mattcharney) September 21, 2017 I am just too wary of the term “AI powered” and the illusion